odditorium

plural odditoriums

1. A shop or museum exhibiting unusual curiosities.First known use 20th c.

   Ripley's has odditoriums across the United States, but the Key West location features many exhibits unique to our island.

   2002, Christopher Shultz, David L. Sloan, Quit Your Job and Move to Key West: The Complete Guide, page 55

   3 more examples

   […] and we found passageways with queer, quaint gables, and in a draper's shop, and in constant daily use, we came upon an ancient and beautiful oak staircase really fit for a palace, and we happened upon an "odditorium," […]

   1917, Robert Shackleton, Touring Great Britain, page 182

   Today the syndicated daytime talk show is the straight-line mainstream descendant of the odditoriums and dunk-the-fool attractions of a century ago.

   1998, Robert Abelman, Reaching a critical mass, page 39

   His shop had been an odditorium, its crowding walls filled to the ceiling with unfathomable, strangely charismatic products like Bay Rum and styptic pencils that would seal up cuts […].

   2016, Alan Moore, Jerusalem, Liveright, page 27